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also fnaf has a plot. with characters. and events. Minecraft is more like. a world where you make your own plot/characters/events
I think the main reason why FNAF translated well into a movie, while Minecraft very much doesn't, is that when you're playing FNAF you're supposed to imagine it as real life. You're supposed to squint at any janky or goofy animation it may have and imagine this is you, right now, in real world, behind this security guard desk. While playing Minecraft - what you see is what you're supposed to see. This is not the real world, this is the world of minecraft and things are blocky with simple colors and designs. You're not in the real world, you're in the world of the game.
Which is why seeing the graphics so realistic yet still blocky makes it look deeply uncanny. Like this is not real world. This is also not minecraft. I have no fucking idea where I am
Two days ago I watched the movie version of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” and fell in love. I have to say, however I haven’t read the books except for one glance years ago so I don’t know how good of an adaption the movie is compared to the books, but I do know that I want to read them now.
Opinion time: adaptations that are 100% faithful to the original are not only challenging to create but also have limited utility.
Adaptations are in conversation with their source material, not competition.
Not that criticism of adaptations is invalid on these grounds. Just that a material and it’s adaptations are two different works with merits and weaknesses all their own. Though we tend to notice absences in adaptations, they are uniquely positioned to say something new about the subject already addressed in the source material.
inside you are 2 wolves
one really wants a solitaire movie
the other really hates the idea of solitaire becoming a movie
they both love solitaire
Thoughts about Neverending Story remake
Having heard they're making a remake to Neverending Story I've had a lot of thoughts about how they should do it. You know, what things need to happen to make it good
I say this as a big fan of the original book
While I know there's a lot you can't bring into an adaptation, especially from a book as wild as this, but I feel we could return to the original description of The Nothing
In the movie, The Nothing is depicted as a black and consuming storm. Or according to some, the storm is only there to represent the invisible Nothing, which is still cheating
In the book The Nothing has no color, has no shape, has no tangible presence, no storm clouds to reveal itself. Those who step into it suffer no pain, only cease. And on page 24, as The Tiny says, "when you look at the place, it's as if you were blind."
Making it not invisible either, as some say, but rather something that not a single character within the story can truly describe
Think how all who see Hyde recognize him as being horribly disturbed, despite there being no physical flaws they can point out
Obviously there's nothing they can really do to create that kind of Nothing on film, especially no amount of bad cgi, so what then should be done? That's what I've been thinking about
The best thing to do is keep The Nothing off camera entirely, always just out of our view. With that all we have to go off of is descriptions through dialogue, which many of the characters talk about in the book. Now The Nothing isn't just black clouds, but the terrifying and lovecraftian doom to Fantastica(oh btw, it's Fantastica, they changed the name in the movie) like it always was to so many of the fantasy worlds residents
And because, as everyone who remembers the drowning horse knows, Neverending Story is supposed to be down. So this works imo
Allow me to save you some time
They want a one to one, copy and paste, unoriginal piece of bullshit.
So I guess I'm making another post about the things I want from a Never Ending Sorry adaptation, but will sadly never get
Once again, we need to return to the original name of Fantastica. They changed the name when making it the first time to make it sound more "Disney" and that's dumb. You can't go changing the name of a stories world, that would be like renaming Middle-Earth
Once again, we can not see The Nothing in the new adaptation. It is not a black and imposing storm. Neither is it accompanied by one. It is absence, it is nothing, and looking upon it gives you a sense of blindness
A new one, I think doing a Never Ending Story movie like a Terry Pratchett miniseries would be immensely fun. Like The Color of Magic or The Hogfather. I just think it would be fun, and would help explain aspects of the story that had to get dropped in the previous adaptation
In case it was not already clear. The adaptation can not be like the original Disney movie, or like any of its sequels. It needs to be more like the original book. I'm not the most sure how that can happen, maybe it should be a show(a real show with 24 episodes) instead of a movie, but it needs to happen
To people who are complaining about the recent movie adaptation of Dune I would like to point out a few things and share some opinions:
Any novel no matter how descriptively it is written cannot be hundred percent adapted exactly as is because when you read a book every single person has a unique understanding and imagination and interpretation. So it’s impossible for any filmmaker to capture everything on the page to the screen as is and satisfy everyone.
The things that were changed make so much sense and yes as fans of the books we might have wanted to see some of our favourite scenes or arcs but the movie has stayed so truthful to the soul of source and the amount of detail and hardwork that has gone into the making justified all of those changes.
If you think that the actors did a bad job you might as well start calling the 80s adaptation as the best film adaptation ever made. You don’t have to like their performance entirely but to totally disregard it is just ignorance.
Think about how much believable the movies looked like, I’m talking specifically about the setting, the world where it’s all taking place. For comparison take any other contemporary scifi movie made and think how much you feel is believable (I don’t want to slander Star Wars here because I love them too but then Dune has completely changed my view on how a sci-fi film should be made). Like yes a desert planet where people recycle their own bodily fluids seems like something actually a human would do for survival
If you didn’t like the changes made to Chani’s character you are a straight up misogynist. I won’t explain this point because this whole post is targeted at the books fans and if you have read the book you should understand why I said it.
Denis’s dedication to this movie is literally oozing out of the screen, each frame, the dialogues. The whole cast and crew has given their all and you can obviously tell. If you can’t well you didn’t pay attention.
The biggest reason I keep talking about the dedication that went into making the film is because it is a big budget movie with larger than life characters and settings and this easily could have gone wrong in every way possible but the massive scale was used as a tool like a cog in a machine that it just made sure that it was just enough to keep the machine working smoothly and not overwhelming anyone. Like for example the exotic locations and CGI were just enough to make the audience understand the setting of the story rather than show off how advanced the technology used was.
So these are just a few thoughts I have wanted to share for sometime especially after reading the book and getting a more deeper understanding of the story. Feel free to add more. Whenever I come across a blatantly biased criticism of the movie vs book thing I get irritated especially with a movie made with such heart and soul. And I absolutely admire the effort that went into this particular adaptation. I highly recommend watching the interviews of Rebecca, Timothee and Denis because the way they are passionate about the project is unlike anything I have seen from movie stars in the last few years.
One of the reasons why I almost always defend adaptations is because they’re the same story in different font. It just means new content about the same thing, and it feeds into my obsession
I love this scene from Shadow and Bone. She’s telling him about his family’s history but it’s actually just him so she’s telling him about his history. And the way he’s so carefully listening to her as if he’s wondering what happens next lol.
Thoughts on Stranger Things Novels
Is there a reason why the descriptions and characterizations are slightly off and the timelines are askewed? Is it because the author is asked to deliberately emulate old movie novelizations where that actually happened a lot? I imagine something similar will be done with the Hopper novel as well.
I swear to god if the adaptation of red, white and royal blue doesn’t have David and Mr. Wobbles I will fight some people. If they even think about changing David’s breed I’m gonna loose it
if anybody who knows about how movies work wants to correct me, please do, but couldn’t the people who are trying to write a movie script based off of a musical play, couldn’t they just take the original script and adapt it for a movie? I’m only asking because I don’t want another DEH for the Be More Chill movie I hear is going to happen at one point.
the tv tropes page for the book you just read is the digestif. no explanation needed. fanfiction is pure indulgence, it's the dessert. the memes are like when you sneak back downstairs at 1am to eat a few more bites, standing in front of the open fridge.
movie adaptations are when you reheat the leftovers several days later. sometimes it's surprisingly good. sometimes it makes you violently ill.